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Monday, September 5, 2011

Spring Cleaning

Well, I have decided that the way to beat the grumpies is to get busy. I have created myself a Spring Cleaning Checklist that I will work through over the next 3 weeks before we go away. It will be very nice to come home to a clean house after our holiday.

Oh man - I could never be that organised! (mmm, that does sound a little like those people who say "I could never homeschool"). I think I probably mean you will feel heaps better after doing all that, won't you??

I am a mum of 4 young men who challenge me in many ways as I homeschool them and try to keep my home happy.
I like the principles of a literature based education with a whole lot of real life thrown in and believe in individualising my methods and even curriculum for each child as needed.
I try to remember that the blogging lens can be very good at showing only rainbows and not the mud that naturally comes with the rain. Here you will read about the real days of homeschooling too.

Great Quotes

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. - Plato

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. - Aristotle